How to Know If That Gut Feeling Is Real Guidance or Just Your Own Fear

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I just want to give you a recap of the of the message we had last week. So this is a we call it a a season of of prophetic which is a prophetic training for everybody to actually be able to go through So last week we were asking what is prophecy? So prophecy is obviously where we get a message from God and we give it to somebody. Anybody can prophesy according to the Bible. It says that I have given my I have poured my flesh upon all human beings. Let me say it that way. I have poured my spirit upon all flesh and as you've poured your spirit upon all flesh it means that anybody that is under the spirit of God can prophesy because the Bible also says that follow the way of love but eagerly desire gifts. Now the gift of spirit especially prophecy. So the gift of spirit especially prophecy but what is prophecy and how we can do it is prophecy is hearing God and then how do you say giving over God's people the message that you hear. According to Jeremiah 1 verse 5 he said before I found you in your mother's womb I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet of the nation. So as he was doing that I also just gave you some information about Samuel the boy who didn't know the voice of God but through his mentor Eli he could have recognized because if it wasn't for Samuel that was just a child if God didn't speak to Samuel some people wouldn't have known. So therefore prophecy is very important and that is what prophecy is. I mean Noah if you can remember Noah said to the people look there's going to come waters and they thought ah it's dry why are you talking about water and yet the ark came. So that is what prophecy is. Prophecy is literally some message that you need to speak over to the children of God but why it was necessary obviously is certain things it was to warn. Some of the things it was to give direction. So these are what prophecy is but today I'm going to go over also actually I'm just looking at my notes now also at the same time just to make sure that we have all the things together. Why is prophecy important? Prophecy is important because it helps us to tell others what God is thinking about them. So therefore it's very important to prophesy and God's thoughts are always full of love and God's thought is always according to Jeremiah 29 verse 11 for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord. So these this is prophetic words that God has a plan for you and you need to know about it. Now it's useless of knowing what is prophecy but obviously there's no thing that you can link it with especially when it comes to our own life because I have a problem with teachers that teach something that they give it to you but they give it to you in almost like riddles if I can riddles like if I can call it that way. So why giving you giving somebody riddles teaching them something but not knowing how to go about it but that one I will come to it where I will then give you specific ways how to go about it and how to help you to prophesy because even if I can say to you now let's do a prophetic word and some of the things that when we talk about prophetic word you might not be knowing and therefore I'm going bit by bit just to give you the full. So the next part is where I will also be teaching you how to hear God's word which I've given you a few examples already last week but I'm just going to go a little bit in depth with it not in depth not depth depth like in deep because I don't want a child of three years to get lost you see so I'm going to explain it like as if I'm explaining it to I'm going to cover four things number one is that God wants to speak to us that's number one number two there's also different ways that God speaks to you that's number two then number three how to know if if it's God that is speaking or maybe it's just your own do you call it your own ways or things you know so that also then another one is also I will help you how to go along how to use that like practicing what we preach today so number one as I said God wants to speak to us why do you think God wants to speak to us because if I say to you God wants to speak to you what does it mean the thing is that most people has going through so many things that they are the ones that actually making it hard in their own lives so they make make make it hard for their own lives so God wants to speak so God wants to speak to you about it how do you how do you make make it hard for yourself what I mean by that God wants to speak to you number one meaning to say that some of the things that you're going through God has have or had have had had the answer already God had the answer many a times already so many a times when God had the answer he see what you are going through he he has given the same thing or the same answer to somebody already so when he gave the answer to somebody he is standing ready to give you the answer I'm making an example how do you know that you are in a a bad relationship or do I say abusive relationship now when you are in an abusive relationship God wants wants want to tell you get out so that is why he's speaking to us God wants you to hear from him there was a time in fact you know the the the guy I or let me say my music mentor if I can call it that way if I'm saying music mentor he has been my music mentor so so he wanted to give me some things that I needed to know but what I did is I most of the time didn't bother like like if you can look at this guitar he gave me some specific chords that I should be playing and one of the chords that he gave me even up till today and I'm talking about now I think it's probably how long now it's 30 some odd years back and and and he was trying to bring a point can you hear so I can I still have a way of of playing but I'm just I've just shown you a few things just so that you can understand what I mean by it so this guy was was literally teaching me something and he kept on saying to me do it this way that way and the other but most of the time I did not listen you know when he when he take the guitar he said to me take this do this I didn't want to listen because it was not my passion to do guitar at that time so being passionate about something gives you the option to listen but what if it is something that god is trying to tell you that is going to happen in the future what is going to happen then because this is what happened there god is trying to tell you that your friend that you love so dearly is somebody that you should watch out but because you are too much in love with the person you don't want to hear what is god saying so why I'm making the mentioning about the guitar so that you can see how god speak to somebody it's simple so that is why I'm saying to you number one god wants to speak to you you want to make sure that the relationship that you are in at the moment who is an abusive relationship he wants to speak to you and tell you hey that one is abusing you go away but because of our problems that we have we don't hear what he says so that's number one so god doesn't just want us to to know about him but he also want us to know him personally so what I mean by that is like when somebody knows you I know your name that's it but do I know what is your favorite color never I can say never I know you like black but it's just because I like I I've seen you with a lot of black clothes but it doesn't mean that's your favorite color you see what I'm saying and same to you children what's your favorite color I don't know but I know your name so god wants us to to have some sort of relationship where we speak to him where he can speak back you see because it's no use knowing his name ah I heard they were saying is Jehovah Chira so it means he will provide ah I know him to say he's Jehovah it's no use of having that the thing is to know who he is the Bible says that when when somebody asks him who are you he said I am so meaning to say that I am that I am wants you to ask him questions so that he can speak to you in your specific what is it called in your specific situation let me call it that way now like for argument's sake now some people say god is an utopia with a cany mishand and he want to hit you you know why to you it'll be like that it's because of your situation you feel that you have done some mistakes therefore you see god as the one that always want to punish but the guy that always see god as a loving god that so much wanna make sure that you don't get hurt that's who god is to him so that is why it's important to speak to god so that he can speak back to you that is why I said to you starting with prophetic it's important to know prophecy is something is some kind of a gift that help you prophecy is some kind of a gift that help you so god wants to speak to you ask think about it for argument's sake as you little if if your mom two sisters are here inside the room and you are inside that side when somebody calls you sometimes you might think that it is your mom's sister that call because they sound almost the same but because you know your mother's voice the way she said things it will be easy for you to understand that it's your mom that is calling make sense what I'm saying that so god wants you to know his voice so that he can be able to speak to you if it is I'm calling you immediately is a bigger voice it's not god calling you so you need to know the differences there now now going to to I'm going to confirm a few things with you I don't know oh let me just do the other way around I said to you number one god wants to speak to you number two there's different ways that god speaks now the different ways that god speaks which I've spoken to you last week as well this week I'm just going to touch on it again just so that you can understand so god can speak from from the bible to you he can speak from the bible to you that's number one now when he speak from the bible to you it's actually something that like for argument's sake if you go to um if you go to 2nd Timothy 3 verse 16 it tells us that all scripture is god breathed sometimes when you read a verse it will seems that it stands out and it feel like it's speaking directly to you like this morning um when I when I started I said to you there's a specific song that pushed me this morning because it takes me back to the scripture which is exodus 14 verse 14 it says be still be still so so that specific scripture spoke to me this morning because some of the things that we're going through it makes us to know god is speaking and that is where the bible comes in which the scripture is is breathed out of god's nostrils if I can say it that way another one is to is that god speaks through is through thoughts and impressions now there was a there was something that that came up the other day that I was thinking of somebody and as I was thinking of somebody I knew for a fact that god is not just saying to me you are thinking about that person and what I did is I called the person and you know how the call ended up the call ended up where the guy told me do you know that it was actually god that asked you to speak to me because of the things that I'm going through at this moment so the thought I have of him made me to call him so god speak through the bible and he speak through thoughts and impressions now sometimes god speaks in our thoughts but it might also feel like a quiet idea of or a feeling in our hearts sometimes it's just like it's just a feeling in our hearts but also as i 30 verse 21 now as i 30 verse 21 says the following whether you turn to the right or to the left your ears will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walking it this is the way walking what is the way that you need to walk in is through god speaking through an impression that he impresses on you have you ever gotten to a place where all the time you've been walking this road and suddenly today it's like something is telling you not to go that route you need to go another route just to come in here afterwards something happened in that road so that is how god speak speaks god also speaks to you through visions and through dreams remember x2 verse 17 says your your young man will see visions and your old man will dream dreams that is how god speaks i'm not going to get into this in detail but one day when when we do a prophetic training again i will just give you in-depth how to because if i look at dreams for argument saying some people have a dream they wake up and then they don't take notice of it and then they leave it maybe a few days 10 days 20 days after that something happened and you go back and it says but this sounds like i dreamt about this that day as if god was explaining to me but you didn't write it down or you didn't imprinted it in your mind so that is dreams and visions like like like what joseph for argument sake joseph had the dream and then when joseph got the dream he spoke the dream which was not known to his brothers at that moment he said it's like you will be bowing down to me now they say ah you you wanna you wanna hold yourself like the daughter here now you want us to bow before you so they chase him and put him in just to come and find out after some time here they come bow down before him not knowing it was him so that dream was given to him already but god is also speaking through other people so god also also speak through other people sometimes it's it's through your friends your friend telling you sometimes something it might be a pastor a teacher maybe you know the teacher will tell you something like hey you are such a good boy but you do some things that is not nice and you think it's just a teacher that speak but god is telling the teacher just to tell you that so god speak through other people as well but now i need you to go back to how do you know that it's god speaking because some of the things we we we do we think it's our own thoughts we think it's our own ways but some of the times when god speak he speaks so specifically that you mercy number one or let me say it's actually important to to learn it like teach yourself how to know the difference between god speaking and yourself or the devil in this case for argument sake number one when god speaks it aligns with the bible when god speak it will never be something that doesn't align with the bible if it doesn't align with the bible you must know something is not making is not make sense because the bible says in some 119 verse 105 119 verse 105 your word is a lamp for that for my feet and a light for my path so if it is a lamp for my feet it means that it has some sort of a direction that gives me where to go with my feet so that is it aligns with the bible and then also when god speaks it brings peace to you you know some of the things that once when when your mind speak it's like how do you call it um it brings anxiety you know like when you speak and you say i have to do this it starts giving you anxiety but when god speaks it brings a calmness i will be able to do it i can do it god's voice bring that kind of a peace sometimes it's even challenging you although it's peace but it's peaceful but it gives you some sort of a challenge if i if you go through uh to philippines four over seven like i said because it's a teaching i'm just giving you the scriptures you you you might be going back and just go through it yourself because when you go to philippines four over seven um it says god's peace will guard your hearts and your mouth minds so if somebody um if something makes us feel confused or afraid we can pray pray and ask god if it's really from him because some of the things will not bring confusion god will bring peace and also another way you will know that it's god speaking is it encouraging and is it burning so does it encourage you and it burns you up because if it doesn't encourage you and it doesn't burn you up it means that this this this is what you should also know let me make an example of of of burning up god is telling you that you have sinned and you feel is the devil that is telling you now that you have sinned but in your mind you say i will not do it because it's it's it's killing a different side of me if i make an example somebody um you stole something from somebody and you now say yeah i've stolen it but something tell you to go and give it back maybe it was the person's last hundred friends and here in your mind your heart start pounding and you're thinking hey god won't tell me to give it back because he knows if that person knows it's me that person is going to end me now that person is going to kill me but when god speaks and it makes you to change your ways that is god speaking making you to change your way meaning in a sense of i have stolen this let me go and give it back to the person and then the person tells you do you know that this was my last i was about to do something nicely with then you know that was god that was speaking so it encouraged you and it built you up if i if i go to first Corinthians 14 verse three um first Corinthians 14 verse three remember i said first first Corinthians 14 verse three is to prophesy but also it teaches us that prophecy should number one should encourage us number two should strengthen us and number three should comfort us so if it encourages us and it strengthen us there you know god is speaking there you know god is speaking so if god speaks some of the times we we have a tendency of not knowing where to go yes yes so coming back to to what i was saying let's go back number one god wants to speak to us number two the different ways god speaks which are given to you number three is how you know that god is speaking and now i also want to add this on there i want to add this is to practice it a lot because if you keep on practicing what god is telling you like for argument's sake you have this kind of impression to tell your friend that she must not do one two or three and to you in your mind it's just like ah it's just something try and see and then you will see ah it was really god speaking because the person is telling you wow something told me last night already and today you come to confirm it you see what what makes what makes practice practice makes you to have a way of of coming to god or coming to somebody and with the more you do it the more courage you have with it bishop you know what you know what what happened with my wife my wife always is the one that says why are you looking at that person like that she she she never look at me looking at the woman funny and saying why are you looking at that woman you look at the back or what are you doing no my wife have a tendency when i look at somebody she will say uh you can go and give the what is god telling you something about that person and me i didn't even realize i look at the person like like you know that thing where your your mouth is hanging open and you don't even realize it but by that time i'm standing like here and then my wife is like hey um uh don't be disobedient again go and give them so some guys will say hey look at this woman and then my wife will your your wife will be like hey why are you looking at that woman but my wife knows that some of the times whenever i look at somebody in taint of you there's something that needs to be said but most of the time i'm not doing it you know why because at first when we when we were together i always used to speak to a woman and just say hey god is telling me this and that but i made the mistake not to take a word so it's like mr wait wait wait i'm coming now imagine you having girlfriend you go speak to another woman there so by that time when you speak to the woman the first thing that goes through the woman's mind is that hey this one is making plans for that one for tonight now the woman is in such awe of your of your blessing that you give the woman says give me your number taking out the pen and the paper start writing what do you do you say ah hey this one is is always a serious operator he even operate in front of the girlfriend so so it makes me to feel uncomfortable at sometimes because i didn't take a word to make sure that i she knows what i'm talking about and then she will ask me afterwards so what was that all about and to me in my mind i thought she was saying oh are you are you trying to cheat even so openly so i started doing it lesser and lesser and lesser so my practice becomes lesser and it ended up me working with my wife and looking at women and i'm saying woman it's men sometimes as well but what i'm trying to i'm trying to give you the the message over so that you can understand that it can come through as wrongly but while but while god has the best intention for it so now i'm standing my wife will be like um i see how you're looking at that woman what's wrong she knew i have to say something so the more i started practicing the more she knew it was actually a word that god is trying to give through me to give to that woman so how do you practice you practice by just having one word love i'm just making an example you go to the person and you you speak to the person and you say to the person remember you you're not sure about it when you're not sure about it don't say god tell me to tell you don't know where you're making mistake by doing that you just say i had this kind of a a feeling or a some sort of a impression or something that tells me to tell you love the person when they hear the word love immediately will know this is from god because some maybe a week or day or or somewhere during the course of the day somebody told them you need to use the word love more often then suddenly the person knows ah you're speaking to me god is speaking here then the person will start telling you this and so the practicing is is just start by as you go about your day god which word can i give to somebody what is it and sometimes the prophetic comes through strongly the prophetic comes through strongly and most of our prophetic words net we think it needs to be uh it needs to be id number seven eight oh what what what it's not the it's not a prophetic word those are not it still gives but it's something that okay i'll get to that just now but i want it i want i want to give some sort of a structure so that you can get the teaching from the beginning what is the prophecy and then once the prophecy you get is what i was just mentioning to you now is to to to know the specific ways god wants to speak to you different ways he speaks how do you know he is in speaking and number four is to practice whenever it gets to you so that's the ones i've given to you but remember it's also to be ready to act because it's no use where uh when you hear that you hear god's voice now you don't act upon it because god can be in such a place where he tells you you need to do something but you don't act upon it and now what happened is the word start becoming dull what i mean by dull is something that god told you some years ago and the moment that that you were supposed to tell the person you skip one two three five seven or eight days or even a year and after a year you tell the person it doesn't have the same impact anymore so be ready to act on it so i'm going to give you now so now these things that what to do when you hear god's voice number one act be ready to act upon that word so it's if you act upon the word that's number one then when you hear god's word another one number two is also sharing god's word with others that's number two sharing god's word with others so what do you do when you hear god's voice ready to act sharing the word and number three is also to use wisdom and love i'll explain this to you just now as i go along i told you that it will be a little bit longer but i'll i'll try and push it and how do you call it try and if i can say that way so using wisdom and love and when you hear god's word it's not to just run not pray before you shade pray before you shade so when what do you do when you hear god's word is trusting god even if it's hard that's another way now when you when you're looking at samuel samuel said speak your servant is listening so when you hear the word said speak your servant is listening this um this can be find in in first Samuel first Samuel three first Samuel three i just want i just want you to read first Samuel three and read verse 10 let's start by reading verse nine first Samuel three verse nine let's start by nine therefore Eli said unto Samuel go lay down and it shall be if he called thee that thou shall say speak lord for thy servant hear it so Samuel went and lay down in his place number 10 and the lord came and stood and called at other times Samuel then Samuel answered speak for thy servant hear it speak for thy servant hear it he the problem is now Samuel didn't know the difference between Eli's voice and god's voice he thought this guy was calling him so he went and then he asked evra what's happening now the guy is telling him ah i didn't call you me i was fast asleep how can i call you second time then Eli Eli being or knowing god's ways already knew you should tell this guy a c to god ah i'm listening so when you when you hear god's voice is to act upon it so speak your servant is listening look look this is what happened most of the time there some of the time you play maybe a a game let's say soccer for argument's sake when you play soccer the coach will tell you what to do so when the coach tell you what to do you don't go back to the game and just do what you did before you now need to go and do what the coach is telling you to do so that is that is to act upon the word like like i said to you earlier on when my when my when my music mentor gave me the keys i didn't act upon it but today i'm in need of it even more turn me on so that makes me wanna shout hallelujah you see so because i had to take the keyboard and start acting upon it it's no use of me just hearing what he says and not take a keyboard and start so act upon it so whatever god is telling you be ready to act i wanna i wanna give you another one sharing god's word with others is such a painful one you know why i'm saying it's such a painful one there's a there's a girl she's somewhere in cape town somewhere around cape town and she made me think so much of myself not not the way she she is now or the way she was i was totally different i'm just saying one thing that makes me think of myself is the way she stuttered yeah that girl can start or used to stutter alone the girl's name is jodie jankies now jodie jankies was a pastor's daughter and being a pastor's daughter for some reason she was some sort of forced to be in church if i can call it that way i'm not saying she was forced i'm just saying because you are a pastor's daughter now you you automatically become in church now in church we have a tendency of that we are supposed to say something so as you are in church you need to stand up and go and give your testimony but this jodie jankies couldn't speak there was a problem with her she was a stutterer and she couldn't say anything nicely without them finishing their words i mean her words for her so you know what she she tend to change to now she started making music and this girl can play a keyword bishop for for somebody she's really gifted because she sings and not stutter how do you how do you stutter when you talk but when you sing you don't stutter so god uses her mightily when she is playing the keyboard and starts singing so that was a mighty use of god but i'm coming back to the point i said to you share god's work with others is sometimes tough because we think we have to have it all to start sharing you don't need to have it all to start sharing the only thing you can do is like previously i've made mention to you i said to you when god says to you say the word love all you do is you just go there and say to the person i feel like i need to tell you love that's it you don't need to edge you know last night when i was dreaming i dreamt about love and then suddenly no no no no no no no you don't need to make up a whole lot of stories about the thing just say the word love and god will take care of the rest when god gives us a word to share to somebody you usually want us to encourage the person number one you want us to comfort the person number two sometimes even you want us to guide somebody that is according to first quarantines uh 14 verse three is to encourage to comfort to somebody you like heaven i just feel like today i want to tell you ish and the person that time was was thinking ish ugly face ish i want to use uh what is this thing called i want to use uh makeup and then you are like makeup why do you want to use makeup god told me i must tell you you are looking beautiful heaven am i beautiful oh thank you it's encouraging it's encouraging you know that when god often spoken to the words of encouragement for example um when he spoken to peter he said feed my sheep and to peter at that time feed my sheep was a special meal uh john 21 verse 17 feed my sheep john 71 verse 17 because peter felt discouraged at that time peter felt so discouraged at that time and here comes jesus feed my sheep hey feed my sheep wow that sounds nice you see so sometimes to speak to somebody the only thing you need to do is just say a few things you don't need to be big things then i said to you number three is using wisdom and love now when you speak to somebody it's very important to understand that never is it about breaking others or this what do you say to bring them down if i can say that way so when we feel god has spoken to us for somebody it's important to deliver the message in a loving and a respectful manner hey you useless god say you must be useful no way hey how is that person going to take it hey you you you you you um uh this one um i i saw tiktok visual you know tiktok is fun here tiktok people think now everybody can start ministering there's a there's a prophet there you know what he does he said to the lady uh why do you steal people's men on tiktok on a platform that i asked at that time i checked the the amount of people that was there the amount of people that was there it was 73 and i'm looking at 73 people now i have to look at this woman stealing other people's men it was not necessary to say something like that on a platform like that why do you steal people's men number one now it will get worse you said not did you only steal people's men you even went to inyanga to go and make that one to fall in love just to turn your back on that person again is that now is prophetic like that now if prophetic is like that turn away it's not i don't want prophetic i don't want i give up you know you know so when when when he said to her those things the first thing that goes through my mind is what if the one of the men is there on that life what maybe it's it's the the lady was so hey this prophet can prophesy nicely nicely and then uh inviting the the boyfriend because she thinks that it will help the boyfriend's life and now why do you steal other people's men the nicest part of it is he actually told the things that make sense at the time and he helped her by praying for her but the way he did it was not right you don't expose people like that you tell the person can i give you some sort of things when we are in the you know in the silence then we can talk nicely but for now this is the reason number one you're not getting married is why i'm saying to you what i i will be saying to you but god is telling me you will get married you know what i'm saying the things that you did before he's taking it away from you now it's time your time has come for you to get married the blessing of marriage is upon your life but first we need to deal with something come to my inbox after this you see what i'm saying that is a much more better way of of of of explaining it so worse use i mean worse well wisdom no use wisdom be wise don't tell somebody heaven you know what you are you are such a useless no doesn't work that way so let your conversation be always be full of grace let your conversation be seasoned with salt that's collusion four over six bisham how do we season our words with salt before i start speaking let me put some salt it means is to preserve somebody it's not to kill the person because when you do speak to somebody the problem that you have is that when your words is full of stones you can't even chew it you know you know it is it's problems that said something about words that comes out it's like somebody eating stones ne bisham it's somewhere i think it's proverbs or some something so when you say dirty things to somebody it's like you chewing some stones so therefore your words need to be seasoned with salt number one your question you need to ask me when you speak to somebody ne by using wisdom and love is is is number one is it helpful and is it kind is it helpful is it kind number two it does it bring peace to the person not confusion not anger not anxiousness peace because it says philippians four over seven tells us that god's peace guards our hearts and our minds and another thing bishop you know this one is is going to is going to get me in trouble with a lot of a lot of people that that give prophetic words to people am i humble because sometimes we are so cocky the first thing you use is that you're saying if i be a man of god so does it mean you are not a man of god sometimes we use those words bishop and i've used it a lot of times i've used it you know why i use it because i felt that time that my my human are more over my spirit you know when when you think that people will not believe what you say so you use words like if i be a man of god god will it's words of of it's words of inferiority you feel inferior when you use that word not it's not wrong to use it sometimes for some people to get you to understand you you can use it you know you know those ones that doesn't believe you bishop you know there's people that you can say whatever you want to the better way to say it is if if if i say to you is wrong may god strike me you see so that the person's faith can be lifted but sometimes it comes it doesn't come out of being humble sometimes it's best to say i feel like god might be saying something i feel like god is telling me to tell you i feel like you know so you you become a more humbler to say that way you become more humble to say that way number four i said to you pray before you start sharing hey sometimes the devil is saying hey tell that one you love her tell her tell her you are having the the ring now you're telling somebody you know what happened with me um 19 no 2000 and 2004 2005 no no i was i was the youth leader in in in a ministry in jobok bishop being a youth leader you are you are somebody that is seen in the community because everybody look at you and every time whenever they talk there's the youth leader at that time i was in bread of life ministry there's the youth leader you somebody asked us um they asked us to sing the song yes i love you with the love of the lord yes i love you so they asked us to sing this song but at the same time he's telling us to say it with meaning not just to say i love you lo and behold bishop i got a message from my gogo gogo gogo like at that time i probably was about 30 and the woman was about 60 70 years somewhere around there she wrote me a nice letter you know when you when you say you love me i felt it i felt it the way i felt it it's like i could have taken you there and hugged you and kiss you immediately in church you know so before i said it i just said it i didn't pray about it so therefore it's important to pray about it so that somebody doesn't take it up the wrong way it's i love you with the love of the lord it's not i love you to get in bed with you there's a difference a couple love there's a difference it's not a sound sign a love of it's not a way of affectionate love so when when i got that that message i mean that because the auntie was like like that old where she she started writing things she doesn't she doesn't send tell you come let's talk about it no she she's in the writing area i took the letter i read the letter i went back to her and says mommy i really love you as a mother but this you took up the wrong way the song was saying and it was asked for us to say it that we mean it i love you with the love of the lord and me and the woman had such a nice conversation afterwards that every time whenever i preach she will be the one that is the loudest to say amen because she knew there was some sort of a mistake so pray before you start saying something to somebody and and sometimes god give us a message but we want but we just want to give it he wants us to pray about it first so praying help us understand the message better and to know the right time to say them share the message because sometimes we just want to get over and done with but it was not the right time to give the message example of it is in x 13 x 13 verse 2 the early christians prayed and they fasted listened to god's voice so when they did that they were praying and the holy spirit said that they should be be putting out paul and banavas on a mission so by praying it says put this one aside sanctify them that's number four sometimes when you pray it also helps you not to get into a message that makes you to to bring the person down but the prayer of the person to be lifted and number five you see you see i told you that i don't want this message to be too it's going to be long i try to make it short i'm saying message i'm talking teaching sorry visual manage because message is something else teaching is something else so another last thing no it's not the last thing but one more thing is trust god even if it's hard so if god tells you go and tell the person something it's like telling the person like uh who's that guy who was running away from god in the bands judas not judges six no the other one the judges six one uh what is that guy men of valor what's that guy's name gilion yeah you know you know when when gilion was told men of valor the guy was like you're me men of valor me i'm running huh so he did at that time it was time to press god when god tells you you are men of valor imagine gilion bishop if if god tells me now hey long man what is tall man not long man tall man me i won't believe you because hey the way i've been short all my life it won't it won't no it won't make a difference i won't believe it's god speaking because i've been short ever since tall man tall man shaylon your dad you know your dad i'm almost here by the shoulder it's like the way the guy is tall i always think of things like that i can't this i can't be tall i'm taller than you yes but my age hey they are overpowering me bishop even you that is also short you overpowering me and you are not a tall man you see what i'm saying so some of the things we sometimes don't trust god because we see physical if you are totally in spirit even the giant like a goliath can't do david nothing that that guy when he stayed there and he and he started mocking the people of god you know what happened he mocked he mocked he mocked and david comes there and david thought of himself to be a giant because you know what happened him being a giant a shepherd boy striking is bear and lion bear and lion i think yeah it's a bear and a lion so a bear for for for david is nothing a lion is nothing because the passion he have for the sheep now imagine a whole community to see that he now need to shepherd and here is this big goliath bear standing in front of him it makes him not to look at his physical because you know why i'm saying he's physical he was he was um he was feeling inadequate or he was feeling not worthy to be in a battle when they gave him the the armor you know he they gave him an armor to say hey brah use this thing so when the armor comes on him he couldn't move you know when he he couldn't move he's like ah but all these soldiers they having armor me i can't wear this armor he feel that it was he wasn't worthy to wear the armor so he took off the armor because the armor is not it's not built for the armor that's how small boy you see so when the small boy comes and he killed goliath joe these are the things that we're going to so trust god even if it's hard joshua 1 verse 9 be strong and courageous do not be afraid do not be discouraged for the lord god will be with you wherever you go what what will make you to be discouraged i mean what will make you to be strong and be courageous what will make you to be strong and courageous is when you when you start acting upon his word so god what else want us to respond to his word not just to hear them when we we share god's word neck what god says that it should always be with love encouragement and kindness and we can pray for wisdom trust god for courage and remember that is always with us i will be with you till the end of times god for you now some of the things you need to know is a prophetic word gets taken up with extra things some people are prophetic worshipers do you know what i mean by prophetic worshipers visual you know like the guy that can sing like the words he sing it brings such a prophetic word to people that wow it just enter into the spirit it just enter into the spirit you know those prophetic guys but there are gifts that is also can i do this next no if you allow me i'll go half an hour i'm not going to go over half an hour maybe 15 minutes but not not our some of the things that helps us in prophet or in prophetic is our gifts what are you gifted at some are gift gifted at speaking so you can say your work easily some are gifted in playing a keyboard some are gifted at dancing you know you and your mom you are you are good you will do a nice spiritual dancing together not you alone i'm saying you and your mom tell me i'm right have you seen your mom dance so hey and i'm saying i'm saying i've seen her dance but i'm i've seen her spiritually dancing where i i see the like a specific way you know i wasn't supposed to say this but prophetically i saw her at the stage doing a prophetic dance and people were slain under the spirit i've not seen this before so please ask your mom she must start like small spiritual dance moves please that's small small because i see her gifted in doing that touching people's hearts by not even saying anything just whatever i don't know how do you do the whatever they do you see so what is gifts one of the gifts that you can find is the gift of prophecy by prophesying to others that's number one but god helps us also to have word of knowledge as well knowing something that god gives us that only god can have word of wisdom discerning of spirits and one faith this is things that helps us to ease in prophecy i want to start with you with prophecy to prophesy is when god gives you a word to encourage somebody how can i how can i explain as a kid when you feel like you need to say something good to your to somebody that is prophetic you know what is a word of knowledge word of knowledge is a word that you know you wouldn't have known it if it wasn't for the spirit of god you know like it you can almost call it like a special hint like a hint on on on something like like let me make an example like this for some reason most of us have the tendency of of of playing strong like i smile always when i see you i'm happy but when you come and you tell me you you always tell us such nice things but the things that you are going through it's hectic that is word of knowledge that is word of knowledge like jesus when he said to the woman uh at the well the one that you have now is not even the one that is word of wisdom i mean word of knowledge sorry knowing that you that somebody know that somebody won't know so when when jesus says to this one the five that person knew that the other other four didn't know about the one she knew for a fact that she she didn't use them in one room she used them in different places five of them so they didn't know about each other that is knowledge word of knowledge word of wisdom is a is is it's like word of wisdom is somebody that the person got into trouble and god gives you an advice to give to the person that is word of wisdom how do you advise somebody last night i didn't sleep well i had this nightmare then suddenly what happened god tells you no this was not nightmares it was just the person that was sleeping on a on a vein if i can call it that way you know when when you sleep on on on one of your veins it makes the body numb at the side so when i woke up i felt numb on the one side word of wisdom tells you to say to the person just use a higher cushion like pillow a pillow okay cushion what this is this is pushing but below is the one that you sleep on pillow yeah pillow so whether wisdom tell you to use the pillow that is a bit higher now it doesn't block the veins you see that is what of what of wisdom to advise the person to use a better pillow imagine as a as a kid man you're supposed to make a puzzle you're building the puzzle now and for a long time you are struggling with this puzzle you're struggling and you're struggling and then suddenly between all the pieces you see one pieces that stand out and the moment you pick the piece and you put the piece suddenly everything makes sense god showed you specifically to pick that one that is word of wisdom it helps you when steven spoke there god gave him wisdom that others could see it helped people to see god's wisdom in him that is now x6 verse 10 maybe i should go there um that is steven speaking in x6 verse 10 in x6 verse 10 let me let me read from eight and steven full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles among the people then there rose certain of the synagogue which is called the synagogue of the libertine times and the serenades and the alexandrians and then cecilia and of asia disputing with steven and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke speak so word of wisdom made him to be strong at that time then there's the ceiling of spirits somebody telling you i love you with the love of the lord and you thinking hey this one on food he want me you know so what do you do you thinking no man the spirit behind this love is the spirit of jezebel the spirit behind this love is not the spirit of of jesus died on the cross of calvary for us no it's not that spirit it's a different spirit kind of spirit so the descending of spirit is somebody telling you ah you know what you should be going you should be going for acting but behind that what the person is saying to you you can sense a spirit of jealousy the spirit actually that person doesn't actually want you to go and acting or something else because now they push acting so that you don't go where you're supposed to go that's spirit of the sermon according to first john 14 first john 14 verse one he says test the spirit to see whether they are from god test it how do you discern a man of god telling you a prophetic word how do you discern if it was from god you know you need to test the spirit you need to test the spirit yeah i think i can i can i can finish with this one the last one is faith the gift of faith is is something i can say to you that helps a lot of us even though we don't know it exists so what is it faith is a strong confident believe in god's promises you know some of the times somebody might say life is tough but the way i believe in god's will your your your it can be as tough as it is i will still believe in even when he can't see this this faith can help us to do things whether this faith i mean can help us do things we never thought we can do because we know god is with us sometimes you know uh my son ever have both a day my son he will tell me daddy i want this then he said i know you don't have the money now but we'll make a plan um he he was asking me for ps3 three yes three so he was asking me for ps3 at some years ago and i kept on saying to him hey bro these things is expensive i can't and he said to me no daddy don't worry we'll get it i know one day we will get it and there's ps3 now which i in my mind i was like when he spoke about it i didn't believe that i will be able to afford it because when i look at cupboards vision cupboards is more important than the peers how imagine if there's no food how will they even play a p s when when they can't there's no energy in the fingers to do that but he had the faith and he proved that so his faith is always best and that is a gift that god has been given to him uh hebrews 11 verse one faith is being sure of what we hope for in certain of what we do not see being sure of what we hope for what are we hoping for today what is the faith that we have i know for a fact that god has been telling me to tell you today that you will prophesy even if you don't know that you can you will do it that's faith i know each and everyone that is under the sound of my voice now even you on facebook uh platform that wherever you are when you hear this you will know you will prophesy one day because god has been given you already it's just for you to start desiring to prophesy how do you desire to prophesy it's just that maruti there's one thing that god has spoken to me about this week he said to me that we tend to have a problem to hide our well-beings our good things you know what i mean by that it's like god gave me a car because god gave me a car i should not go and break about it because i'm worried that somebody might get so jealous that they start playing against the car to be break to break down and he said to me that i must not be having the problem where i don't build somebody's faith in a sense of hiding what i have yes i'm coming now i'll tell you what i mean he said to me that when i was staying in soretto i stayed in a place that is so small and today i stay in a place it's ten times it's ten times bigger than that place but i don't want to talk about it because i'm worried that somebody might curse me for being a blessing you see so he told me so he told me specifically that start telling people how good i am in your life to build their faith so that their faith can be built up through what you have accomplished i have accomplished my matric certificate bishop do you know my matric certificate it's not what what what b and c are equal a b c's no it's what d for donkeys don't go i'm telling you i've managed my matric d don't worry about how you as long as you pass d for donkeys get you through even though it's just lower it gets you through so god told me that i must make sure that whenever i speak i speak of how i've accomplished it through the grace of god not through my own strength because through my own strength i would have never made my matric do you know why i'm saying it because at the time when i was writing my matric my boy was born imagine somebody sitting with july august september october november october my boy was three months old and i had to write my matric exams i wanted to give up but through the grace of god my mother said i'm you're not going to give up so if it wasn't for my mother i wouldn't have had matric so god wants me to tell you these things i drove a car that almost killed me you know the car i was driving there was uno red one nice two door two door two door you you you bishop the the magwheels was not was not your 13 inch it was it was 16 inch magwheel on a uno that was that thing was big with low profile tire the thing looked so nicely lo and behold i went to paul prover road as i get to the plane the fire was there fire i i sat in the car like this and as i go up the the how do you call that speed bump speed bump or something speed hump hump or bump doesn't matter but that one you know what i'm talking about so as i grew on the speed hump i saw the fire in the boot where there was a hole i saw i tried to get out of the car i couldn't do you know what do you know what happened for some reason the stress made me not to get the door open what is it the lever thing is here to open it but i couldn't until somebody across the street came with a bucket of water because the person was busy washing cars there and the person came with a bucket of water and he threw while he was throwing there somebody from the bank i don't know in that bank or west bank i mean or fnb one of the two somebody from the bank saw the fire and he came rushing with the with the fire extinguisher and he put out the fire mamruti coming from that car i thought i will never get a nice car again no and behold just after that red car we bought a fiat punto very nice car beautiful car but because me i have a tendency of of of thinking if i brag about it somebody will curse me i have not shown it a lot i i don't even have picture of the car okay this one i think i have a picture and then once i put the picture on facebook i think and i bought the car for my wife at that time i don't have the car anymore so god asked me that i should be telling people the amount of cars that i've lost but also the amount of cars i've gained i started with the 2003 test i went to a a dayutakuma and that dayutakuma is gone after dayutakuma i was having a a uno beat after the uno beat i had this other red uno then after the red uno we had the fiat punto after the fiat punto we had the hunay i10 no before the hunay i10 in fact we had the the sherry j5 the sherry j5 i traded that one in we got the dodge journey after the dodge journey we had the una i10 so eight cars and i'm counting and i'm still counting i've not stopped counting but what i'm trying to say is that god told me to build people's faith and show them how we manage to grow from having a small room to have a bigger house and the house name this house is not put into a landlord's name you know landlord put there you only rent here no it's under my name and my wife's name it's it stands under r and rd zal ronald and ricardo devitt zal that's what the the bond is saying where it used to say smang man smang man smang all the time i used to leon uh leon of leon's hangar leon of leon uh property the leon property the leon group the lion group or lmg group i don't know what they call them lion group they were having all the time the lease was written under their name today it's under my name god told me i must tell you so that it built your faith to know that if i can do it so can you prophetically everybody is allowed to to to have it faith is being sure of what we hope for what do you hope for today i hope that my child will have that metric i hope that my my my car i will drive will not be having this lot of problems where every time i have to speak to somebody i said is here again this is the things we're talking about so i'm leaving you with this and i'm saying to you we'll go on next week with another section but i want you to understand that prophecy is not just for some and not for others prophetic is for everybody uh i want us to to to go again first quarantine let's go to first quarantine again first quarantine again for he that speak it in an unknown tongue speak it not unto sorry i didn't say it's first for first quarantine 14 let's start from one follow after charity and desire spiritual gift but rather than he may prophesy so desire to prophesy for he that speak it in unknown tongue speak it not unto men but unto god for no men understand him here but in the spirit speak it to mystery but he that prophesied speak it unto men to edification exaltation and comforting so you see that it says that these are the things that prophetic is made of so have you ever comforted somebody if you have done that it means you prophesied have you ever ever edified somebody have you spoken into that person's life so that the person feel better prophetic prophetic that's what makes prophets prophecy prophesying next week we'll go on but for today i want to challenge you and i'm challenging each and every one of us here today whether like you bishop who's already in the prophetic uh who says you are already grown up in the prophetic but i'm still challenging even you i'm challenging myself that for this week as we go about everywhere we go let's see where god can use us prophetically let's see where god can use us prophetically and even if we must test even if we don't say god is telling me because by now we know when god speak to us but some of us we don't know and i'm speaking to somebody who's a five-year-old that doesn't know and i'm not talking about five-year-old in age but i'm saying five-year-old in spirit spiritual things i'm talking to this person that can say even if you go there and you say i feel like god is telling me just say it like that i feel like god might be saying that you are loved see do it for this week and do it more i wonder by sunday when we come back we need to at least have some sort of one or two or three things that we can go back to and say ah it really happened and therefore i'll leave you with that and i said to your heavenly father you you know i sometimes being a human being makes make make the thing to think that i can do things by my own strength but i pray for the god that i must never ever ever think that i can do things without you as anybody that is under the sound of my voice is here for the god we all go through a lot of difficult things that we go let us not be helping others in prophesying to others but let us also be helping ourselves to prophesy to ourselves let the prophetic word that comes to us also be relevant in our own lives as well because by prophesying to ourselves we can start to have a greater thing in our own lives and the more we have great things in our own life it can flow over like the cup that ran it over like the thing that you say my cup has run it over surely goodness and mercy shall follow us let that cup that run over on us for the god be proven to every other person as well that we come in contact with for the god in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior i also pray that this afternoon as we stand here for the god let each and every one of us that knows that we have our strength in you that we can say we are mighty men of valor because you said it not us that said it but you said it in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior let us be confident in what we are and who we are for the god and to tell others what you have done in our lives and not to feel like when we tell others out of jealousy they will want us to stop because the blessing that you add to us add no sorrow the blessing you give doesn't add any sorrow so therefore the blessings that you have given to us we bless others by that by giving our testimonies because through testimonies we can testify that the goodness of god and through that testimony that we have we overcome by that testimony of the word of our testimony and by the blood of the lamb and therefore through that we will still stand strong in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior we pray amen and amen now may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the sweet fellowship of the holy spirit rest and abide with us all until jesus comes surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever in jesus mighty name amen and